Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 614 620
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +160
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 68 183 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.20% 0.41% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24 85 133
10th Percentile - £56,000 £51,100
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.73% +6.81%
75th Percentile £86,563 £118,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £94,080 £122,500 £109,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £83,750 £75,554
% change year-on-year -7.46% +10.85% +12.62%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,907 44,547 39,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 68.56% 57.03% 65.66%
Number of salaries quoted 17,683 23,133 28,629
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,700 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,985
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.93% +0.96%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +14 66 £80,000 +4.92% 23
London -22 60 £82,500 +10.00% 17
UK excluding London +92 8 £77,500 -7.46% 15
Work from Home +47 8 £76,250 +36.16% 17
North of England +20 3 £74,288 - 4
South East +51 2 - - 6
Scotland +27 2 - - 4
Midlands +47 1 £77,500 -
East Midlands +32 1 £77,500 -
Yorkshire +26 1 £83,577 - 3
North East +21 1 - -
North West +8 1 £65,000 - 1

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.12%) AWS
2 28 (41.18%) Azure
3 26 (38.24%) GCP
4 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.94%) Figma
5 1 (1.47%) Apigee
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.35%) Data Lake
1 22 (32.35%) Metadata
2 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Hive
2 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.47%) KDB
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
1 2 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (1.47%) Git
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 61 (89.71%) Banking
2 59 (86.76%) Finance
3 30 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (44.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (35.29%) Financial Institution
5 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
6 7 (10.29%) Corporate Banking
6 7 (10.29%) Retail
7 4 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.88%) Marketing
7 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.41%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.47%) German Language
10 1 (1.47%) Law
10 1 (1.47%) Publishing
10 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (39.71%) Architect
2 22 (32.35%) Data Architect
3 14 (20.59%) Senior
4 11 (16.18%) Analyst
5 7 (10.29%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.82%) Banking Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Business Change Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Business Change Business Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Lead
8 4 (5.88%) PMO Manager
8 4 (5.88%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Manager
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Transformation Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Migration Manager
9 3 (4.41%) Test Manager
10 2 (2.94%) Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Spring
1 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.94%) Kafka
2 2 (2.94%) Keras
2 2 (2.94%) NumPy
2 2 (2.94%) SciPy
2 2 (2.94%) SpaCy
2 2 (2.94%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.47%) J2EE
3 1 (1.47%) JSR 170
3 1 (1.47%) Node.js
3 1 (1.47%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) PMI
2 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.47%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.47%) IVR
3 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (72.06%) Agile
2 30 (44.12%) Asset Management
3 28 (41.18%) Business Development
4 27 (39.71%) Innovative Thinking
4 27 (39.71%) Migration
5 25 (36.76%) Commercialisation
5 25 (36.76%) Data Management
6 23 (33.82%) Data Migration
6 23 (33.82%) Data Modelling
7 22 (32.35%) Cost Management
7 22 (32.35%) Data Architecture
7 22 (32.35%) Data Privacy
7 22 (32.35%) Data Strategy
7 22 (32.35%) Logical Data Model
7 22 (32.35%) Metadata Management
7 22 (32.35%) Physical Data Model
8 14 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (13.24%) Business Case
9 9 (13.24%) Waterfall
9 9 (13.24%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.71%) SQL
2 6 (8.82%) Java
3 3 (4.41%) Python
4 1 (1.47%) C#
4 1 (1.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 22 (32.35%) Azure Certification
3 9 (13.24%) Degree
4 6 (8.82%) PMI Certification
5 4 (5.88%) APMP
5 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.94%) MBA
6 2 (2.94%) PhD
6 2 (2.94%) PMP
6 2 (2.94%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) P3O
1 4 (5.88%) PMO
2 3 (4.41%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Adobe
3 1 (1.47%) Qualtrics
3 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud